# ✅ Checkpoint: Framing and Evidence Sorting

By Better Wise



## Quiz

1. Which sentence is a decision statement rather than a situation report?
   - Should Ana replace week-one shadowing with a paid buddy rotation by 1 May, triggered by the next hire date?
   - Everyone is worried about the vendor contract renewal, we should probably look at it soon.
   - Onboarding is a mess and two new hires already look disengaged.
   - Improve onboarding across the whole company this year.
2. Which of these are framing traps described in the lesson? Select all that apply.
   - The solution smuggled into the question, so alternatives never get compared
   - The ranked goal, which forces a trade-off between priorities
   - The pre-registered success criterion, written before the choice is made
   - The compound decision, which bundles several choices into one question
   - The borrowed decision, which belongs to someone else while you only advise
3. A decision deadline is when the ____ must be made, not when the outcome becomes visible.
4. A colleague says: 'The role must be within 45 minutes of my mother's care home.' How should this be sorted?
   - An assumption, because it has not been tested yet
   - A hard constraint, because it has a real source and violation removes the option
   - A soft constraint, because it only costs points in the comparison
   - A preference, because it reflects a personal taste
5. Which properties must a testable success criterion have? Select all that apply.
   - Tied to a named goal
   - Time-bound
   - Observable
   - Threshold-based
   - Written after the result is known
6. Dressing up a preference as a rule so the debate ends without evidence is called constraint ____.
7. A vendor case study claims 'teams like ours cut reporting time by 40 percent.' How should you treat it?
   - Anchor evidence, because it contains a number
   - A preference, because the vendor wants you to buy
   - A lead to test, because reliability is moderate (the vendor benefits) and relevance is uncertain (their baseline may differ)
   - A hard constraint, because it sets an expectation
8. Take your project decision and write its one-page frame: a one-sentence decision statement, three ranked goals, hard and soft constraints with sources, and one primary success criterion. Then explain how you would test your riskiest assumption.


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## Contents

Part of [🧭 Decision-Making and Autonomy: Trust Your Judgment in the Age of AI](https://everwise.study/courses/decision-making-and-autonomy-trust-your-judgment-in-the-age-of-ai.md)

- **🧩 Frame the Decision and Set the Bar**
  - [🔍 Name the Real Decision with Problem Framing](https://everwise.study/courses/decision-making-and-autonomy-trust-your-judgment-in-the-age-of-ai/name-the-real-decision-with-problem-framing.md)
  - [🎯 Goals, Constraints, and Success Criteria](https://everwise.study/courses/decision-making-and-autonomy-trust-your-judgment-in-the-age-of-ai/goals-constraints-and-success-criteria.md) (sign-in required)
  - [⚖️ Facts vs Preferences: What Counts as Evidence](https://everwise.study/courses/decision-making-and-autonomy-trust-your-judgment-in-the-age-of-ai/facts-vs-preferences-what-counts-as-evidence.md)
  - [✅ Checkpoint: Framing and Evidence Sorting](https://everwise.study/courses/decision-making-and-autonomy-trust-your-judgment-in-the-age-of-ai/checkpoint-framing-and-evidence-sorting.md) — this lesson
- **🧪 Compare and Stress-Test the Options**
  - [🔀 Opportunity Cost and Side-by-Side Comparison](https://everwise.study/courses/decision-making-and-autonomy-trust-your-judgment-in-the-age-of-ai/opportunity-cost-and-side-by-side-comparison.md)
  - [🚨 Cognitive Biases and the Pre-Mortem](https://everwise.study/courses/decision-making-and-autonomy-trust-your-judgment-in-the-age-of-ai/cognitive-biases-and-the-pre-mortem.md)
  - [⏱️ Reversibility, Decision Speed, and Calibrated Confidence](https://everwise.study/courses/decision-making-and-autonomy-trust-your-judgment-in-the-age-of-ai/reversibility-decision-speed-and-calibrated-confidence.md)
  - [✅ Checkpoint: Choosing Under Uncertainty](https://everwise.study/courses/decision-making-and-autonomy-trust-your-judgment-in-the-age-of-ai/checkpoint-choosing-under-uncertainty.md)
- **🔁 Use AI, Decide, and Review the Outcome**
  - [🤖 AI as a Question Generator, Not an Authority](https://everwise.study/courses/decision-making-and-autonomy-trust-your-judgment-in-the-age-of-ai/ai-as-question-generator-not-an-authority.md)
  - [📋 Post-Decision Reviews: Process Over Outcome](https://everwise.study/courses/decision-making-and-autonomy-trust-your-judgment-in-the-age-of-ai/post-decision-reviews-process-over-outcome.md)
  - [🛠️ Project: Build a Decision Brief with Pre-Mortem and Review Plan](https://everwise.study/courses/decision-making-and-autonomy-trust-your-judgment-in-the-age-of-ai/project-build-decision-brief-with-premortem-and-review-plan.md) (premium content)
  - [✅ Checkpoint: AI Use and Decision Review](https://everwise.study/courses/decision-making-and-autonomy-trust-your-judgment-in-the-age-of-ai/checkpoint-ai-use-and-decision-review.md) (premium content)
- [Course cheatsheet](https://everwise.study/courses/decision-making-and-autonomy-trust-your-judgment-in-the-age-of-ai/cheatsheet.md) (premium content)